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During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was captured [3] on 24 February 2022, the first day of the invasion, by the Russian Armed Forces, [4] who entered Ukrainian territory from neighbouring Belarus and seized the entire area of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant by the end of that day.
Included in this category are non-free fair use images related to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, an important topic of unique historical significance. Media in category "Images related to the Chernobyl disaster"
On April 26, 1986, reactor number No. 4 at the Chernobyl plant, some 100 kilometers north of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, exploded during a botched safety test.
The protective cover encasing the leaking Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been damaged by a Russian drone, CCTV appears to show. The drone destroyed the plant’s fourth power unit during an ...
Igor Fedorovich Kostin (27 December 1936 – 9 June 2015) was one of the five photographers in the world to take pictures of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster near Pripyat in Ukraine, [1] on 26 April 1986. He was working for Novosti Press Agency (APN) as a photographer in Kyiv, Ukraine, when he represented Novosti to cover the nuclear accident in ...
Tourists got to see Chernobyl from the skythe site of the world's worst nuclear disasterUkraine International Airlines took passengers on a 90-minute flightover the abandoned town of Pripyat that ...
The German environmental minister was given the authority over reactor safety as well, a responsibility the minister still holds today. The Chernobyl disaster is also credited with strengthening the anti-nuclear movement in Germany, which culminated in the decision to end the use of nuclear power made by the 1998–2005 Schröder government. [258]
Ukrainian emergency services said on April 14 they had largely contained grass fires that had broken out near the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant.State emergency services (SES) worked with ...